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Week 6 – Iron Low Heat

[Proverbs 1:32, Revelation 3:14-22]

CARING WITHOUT COMPLACENCY

Romans 12:11 – Do not lack diligence (enthusiasm); be fervent in spirit (hot enough to boil); serve the Lord. [HCSB]

John Stott – The Laodicean church was a halfhearted church. Perhaps none of the seven letters is more appropriate to the twentieth-century church than this. It describes vividly the respectable, sentimental, nominal, skin-deep religiosity which is so widespread among us today. Our Christianity is flabby and anemic. We appear to have taken a lukewarm bath of religion.

Proverbs 1:32 – For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; [ESV]

Complacency – self-satisfaction, unawareness of deficiencies

Amos – Religion without Repentance(4:6-13),Religion without Reformation / No change(5:11-12)

Ointment – Laodicea medical school famous for producing eye salve – spread over eyes to see [WORD OF GOD & ANOINTING OF HOLY SPIRIT]

verse 19 – God’s purpose of discipline – not to punish, to bring us back to Him

ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIP

Breakout Session Questions

1) Read Psalm 51:10-12. What is the cause of complacency in this passage? What can we do to fight the complacency?

2) Read Ephesians 1:15-16 and Revelation 2:4. What is the cause of complacency in these passages? What can we do to fight the complacency?

3) Read John 17:17 and 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What can we do to fight the complacency? Why is this so important?

4) Read Jeremiah 29:13. What can we do to fight the complacency? Why is this so important?

5) Read Acts 2:46-47. What can we do to fight the complacency? Why is this so important?

Handle with Care is a 6-week series focused on studying God’s Word and responding with care. The six weeks of messages may sound like instructions for laundry care — but you will soon find Handle with Care beckons you to examine within, to gauge how you truly love God and love others, and to grow inward and outward. Caring starts with the heart and pours out into the community.